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Juice of Dreams

for saxophone quartet

Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone
Duration: ca. 3'30"
Year: 2021

Premiered by the UO Saxophone Quartet (2021)
Winner of the NAfME Student Composers Competition, Collegiate Division (2021)
Selected for the 2024 Vancouver Pro Musica Sonic Boom Festival 
Selected for the 2025 NUNC!6 Conference

Program Note

With an attempt to explore a brassy, jazzy timbre of saxophone, this piece depicts a dream full of delights, citrus colors, and zesty flavors. The 16th-note rhythmic pulse runs throughout the piece which varies from time to time with counterpoint, lyrical melody, and unexpected rhythmic changes. All of these characteristics guide an inexorable journey of a dream—but at the end, it shatters with a final punch.

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Performed by Kenari Quartet
Kyle Baldwin | Corey Dundee | Bob Eason | Steven Banks

Performed by UO Saxophone Quartet
Nick Graham | Chris Boyd | Michael Smith | Nathan Hughes

May 15, 2021 | Beall Hall, OR

JOANNE S. NA

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